The silent commission killer: why agents lose 60 days every year
Pancho Mehrotra unpacks the psychology of prospecting avoidance and how to rewire your habits for maximum output.
Vacancies climb to four-year high as renter instability persists
Rental stock improved in July for the first time in years, but new research shows tenant families – especially children – still face high turnover and financial strain in the…
The 25x mindset: How Alex Jordan turned a career-ending diagnosis into a 5-year reign as McGrath’s top agent
From a shock diagnosis and financial rock bottom in 2011 to becoming McGrath’s five-time Agent of the Year,…
Rita Kennedy returns to Ray White Maroochydore
The agent has rejoined the office where she built her career, with her family now settled in the…
Grace Anderson and David Sylvester open Ray White Katikati
The pair are combining a decade of local market experience with more than 25 years of sales leadership…
Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants
Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past age 50 by 2040, reshaping how landlords should think about tenant retention.
Nick Brown: A break lease isn’t a crisis – it’s a negotiation
Tenants ending a lease early is part of the job – Nick Brown on why the ‘break lease’ conversation is really just a negotiation, haunted houses included.
Brock Fisher: Fix the holes in your revenue bucket before you try to grow it
Most agencies are missing hundreds of dollars a month in fees they never collect. From file audits to reinstating waived fees, here's where property management revenue leaks – and six ways to stop it.
Hope is not a strategy: Chris Hanley on trust, truth and moving stock
In the first track of The Edit, Samantha McLean and Chris Hanley get past the easy answers on trust, hard vendor conversations and the operating…
Happy people do more, and they love doing it
Walk into a property management business that's firing and you can feel it before anyone speaks. The energy is up. People are moving. The phone…
The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud
Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points
The lease mistakes costing you repeat commercial clients
Harcourts' head of commercial argues the real test of a lease comes years later, and sets out five common mistakes agents should steer clients away…
Freedom is the hardest thing young agents have to manage
After nearly 20 years in real estate, I have seen our industry evolve in more ways than I could count.…
What really separates top agents in today’s market
Strip away the noise: why mastering communication, marketing, and negotiation beats every market shortcut
The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept
Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by…
How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it
Four practices for taking feedback seriously without taking it personally.
The house is listening – and it heard your vendor report
More than half of sellers in a new US survey kept the cameras rolling during…
Shorts
Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader
Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…
Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout
The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…
San Francisco homes selling US$1m over asking amid AI boom
San Francisco’s housing market has flipped from a city people were leaving to one where…
The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack
The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…
Which Real Estate Jobs Deserve Claude Fable 5’s $1,000-an-Hour Brain
I’ve spent the past few days testing Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s new top-of-the-range model, and…
Hope is not a strategy: Chris Hanley on trust, truth and moving stock
How to Become the Answer AI Gives When Sellers Ask “Who’s the Best Agent?”
How AI-Powered DISC Profiling Can Win You More Listings
Stop Selling to Everyone: How AI Buyer Personas Can Transform Your Next Listing Presentation
The AI Edit Ep. 11: Your vendor isn’t online – here’s how AI can still help
Teach ChatGPT to Write Like You – Not a Robot
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